{"id":26110,"date":"2018-03-27T11:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=26110"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:57:53","slug":"russia-vows-to-react-to-provocative-expulsions-of-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/russia-vows-to-react-to-provocative-expulsions-of-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia vows to react to \u2018provocative\u2019 expulsions of diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian foreign ministry on Monday vowed to retaliate against the expulsions of its diplomats by the US and Canada, as well as 14 European Union countries and Ukraine over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe express a decisive protest over the decision taken by a number of EU and NATO countries to expel Russian diplomats,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, calling the moves a \u201cprovocative gesture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow vowed that this \u201cunfriendly step by this group of countries will not pass without trace and we will respond to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia said the move went against the interests of identifying those guilty for the attack in the English city of Salisbury on ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who are both unconscious in hospital after being poisoned by a nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>It accused the countries who took part in expulsions of \u201cpandering to the British authorities\u201d and \u201cnot bothering to look into the circumstances of what happened,\u201d saying this was part of a confrontational dynamic aimed at \u201cescalating the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow said the British authorities have issued \u201cgroundless accusations\u201d against Russia and taken \u201ca prejudiced, biased and hypocritical position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It complained that it had received no information on the \u201cattempted assassination of Russian citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian foreign ministry on Monday vowed to retaliate against the expulsions of its diplomats by the US and Canada, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26112,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110\/revisions\/26112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}